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Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064905527
Presents a study of the final days of the seminal author and discusses his upbringing, themes in his works, his rise as a famous writer, and the final months before his death.
Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0571220096
'A Night at the Majestic' evokes the luxury and glamour of early 20th century Paris, the intellectual achievement of the modernist movement and the gossip, intrigue and scandal of aristocratic France.
Author : Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines,Clipper Audio (Firm),Recorded Books, Inc
Publisher : Clipper Audio
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1407443410
The intriguing story of the most extraordinary dinner party of all time - the night Proust, Joyce, Picasso and Stravinsky all met at the Majestic in Paris. One May night in 1922, in a grand hotel in Paris, five of the greatest artists of the 20th century sat down to supper. It would be the only time that Joyce and Proust, Picasso, Diaghilev and Stravinsky were in a room together. Each of these exponents of early twentieth-century modernism was at the peak of his creative powers, and of all of them, Proust was enjoying the most spectacular success. Yet within six months he would be dead. A Night at the Majestic evokes the luxury and glamour of early-twentieth century Paris, the intellectual achievement of the modernist movement and the gossip, intrigue and scandal of aristocratic France.
Author : Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Artists
ISBN : OCLC:1319411673
On a night in May 1922, five of the greatest artists of the 20th century sat down to supper: Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Serge Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky.
Author : Mary McAuliffe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442221642
Mary McAuliffe’s Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870–1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, where creative dynamos such as Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Isadora Duncan set their respective circles on fire with a barrage of revolutionary visions and discoveries. Such dramatic breakthroughs were not limited to the arts or sciences, as innovators and entrepreneurs such as Louis Renault, André Citroën, Paul Poiret, François Coty, and so many others—including those magnificent men and women in their flying machines—emphatically demonstrated. But all was not well in this world, remembered in hindsight as a golden age, and wrenching struggles between Church and state as well as between haves and have-nots shadowed these years, underscored by the ever-more-ominous drumbeat of the approaching Great War—a cataclysm that would test the mettle of the City of Light, even as it brutally brought the Belle Epoque to its close. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, McAuliffe brings this remarkable era from 1900 through World War I to vibrant life.
Author : Patrick Alexander
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307472328
An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust. At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’s novel can seem daunting. But though begun a century ago, in 1909, it is in fact as engaging and relevant to our times as ever. Patrick Alexander is passionate about Proust’s genius and appeal—he calls the work “outrageously bawdy and extremely funny”—and in his guide he makes it more accessible to the general reader through detailed plot summaries, historical and cultural background, a guide to the fifty most important characters, maps, family trees, illustrations, and a brief biography of Proust. Essential for readers and book groups currently reading Proust and who want help keeping track of the huge cast and intricate plot, this Reader’s Guide is also a wonderful introduction for students and new readers and a memory-refresher for long-time fans.
Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062100719
“An astonishing work.” —Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of “Downton Abbey” “A book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom.” —Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people intimately connected with the infamous ship—from deal-makers and industry giants, like J.P. Morgan, who built and operated it; to Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor IV, and other glittering aristocrats who occupied its first class cabins; to the men and women traveling below decks hoping to find a better life in America. Commemorating the centennial anniversary of the great disaster, Voyagers of the Titanic offers a fascinating, uniquely original view of one of the most momentous catastrophes of the 20th century.
Author : Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Grasset & Fasquelle
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2246724716
18 mai 1922, salons de l'hôtel Majestic à Paris. Les mécènes Sydney et Violet Schiff réunissent les plus grands artistes de l'époque en l'honneur d'Igor Stravinsky, dont les Ballets russes viennent de représenter l'opéra-ballet Renard. Entrent les uns après les autres autant d'hommes qui, chacun à sa façon, marqueront leur temps. Stravinsky lui-même, suivi de Diaghilev, l'impresario des Ballets russes ; Picasso, animal, délicieux, séduisant ; Joyce, ivre, mal habillé et laconique ; enfin, à deux heures du matin, dans une houppelande noire et ganté de chevreau, pâle et tout auréolé du triomphe de son dernier roman, Marcel Proust. Le récit de ce dîner mythique est pour Richard Davenport-Hines l'occasion de retracer la vie, la carrière et les amours d'un des plus grands romanciers du XXe siècle.
Author : Steve Bachmann
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781939994455
Proust For Beginners is a compelling biography of French novelist Marcel Proust and a vivid portrait of his times. It also serves as a concise guide and critical review of In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu, 7 volumes, 1913–1927), one of the most difficult—yet widely taught—works of French literature. With extensive passages from In Search of Lost Time and other essential works, Proust For Beginners highlights the defining themes and unique literary style of a modern master whom many have heard about but few fully fathom. It portrays Proust and the milieu in which he wrote in vivid detail, bringing to life the “Proustian moments” at the heart of his greatest work—and our own everyday experience. Proust’s masterpiece “begins in a series of rooms in which he unlocks themes, styles, references, and foreshadows,” writes Harold Augenbraum in the foreword. Proust For Beginners will provide the key.
Author : David Ellison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521895774
A detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time.
Author : Stephen Klaidman
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385534109
A long overdue biography of the power couple that nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentieth-century England "I write primarily to pay homage to a beloved friend, but also in the hope that some future chronicler of the history of art and letters in our time may give to Sydney and Violet Schiff the place which is their due." —T. S. Eliot, in a letter appended to Violet Schiff's obituary, Times of London, July 9, 1962 Largely forgotten today, Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous, almost Zelig-like figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century. Their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable, and their extensive correspondence with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Proust, and many others strongly suggests both intimacy and intellectual equality. Leading critics of the day considered Sydney, writing as Stephen Hudson, to be in the same literary league as Joyce, Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence. As for Violet, she was a talented musician who nurtured Sydney's literary efforts and was among the first in England to recognize Proust's genius and spread the word. Sydney and Violet tells the story of how the Schiffs, despite their commercial and Jewish origins, won acceptance in the snobbish, anti-Semitic, literary world of early twentieth-century England, and brings to life a full panoply of extravagant personalities: Proust, Joyce, Picasso, Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and many more. A highly personal, anecdote-filled account of the social and intellectual history of the Modernist movement, Sydney and Violet also examines what divides the literary survivors from the victims of taste and time.
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1719046972
This is the first translation into English in its entirety of Marcel Proust's Pastiches et Mélanges, published by Gaston Gallimard in 1919. The first part, Pastiches, contains nine literary parodies about a fraudster, Henri Lemoine, who claimed to be able to manufacture diamonds. The pastiches are in the manner of Balzac, Flaubert, Sainte-Beuve, Henri de Régnier, Michelet, Émile Faguet, Renan and the Goncourt brothers. The second part, Mélanges, consists of four sections: the destruction of cathedrals in the First World War, the separation of church and state, a drama about madness, and Proust's love of reading. Proust is best known for writing À la recherche du temps perdu (variously translated as Remembrance of Things Past and In Search of Lost Time), widely considered to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. The Melody beneath the Words is the first translation into English in its entirety of Marcel Proust's Pastiches et Mélanges, published by Gaston Gallimard in 1919. The first part, Pastiches, contains nine literary parodies about a fraudster, Henri Lemoine, who claimed to be able to manufacture diamonds. The pastiches are in the manner of Balzac, Flaubert, Sainte-Beuve, Henri de Régnier, Michelet, Émile Faguet, Renan and the Goncourt brothers. The second part, Mélanges, consists of four sections: the destruction of cathedrals in the First World War, the separation of church and state, a drama about madness, and Proust's love of reading. Proust is best known for writing À la recherche du temps perdu (variously translated as Remembrance of Things Past and In Search of Lost Time), widely considered to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. The Melody beneath the Words is the first translation into English in its entirety of Marcel Proust's Pastiches et Mélanges, published by Gaston Gallimard in 1919. The first part, Pastiches, contains nine literary parodies about a fraudster, Henri Lemoine, who claimed to be able to manufacture diamonds. The pastiches are in the manner of Balzac, Flaubert, Sainte-Beuve, Henri de Régnier, Michelet, Émile Faguet, Renan and the Goncourt brothers. The second part, Mélanges, consists of four sections: the destruction of cathedrals in the First World War, the separation of church and state, a drama about madness, and Proust's love of reading. Proust is best known for writing À la recherche du temps perdu (variously translated as Remembrance of Things Past and In Search of Lost Time), widely considered to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century.
Author : William C. Carter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300191790
Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, this title portrays in abundant detail the life and times of literary voices of the twentieth century.
Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007519811
From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’, a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century.
Author : Bill Goldstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408894576
A revelatory narrative charting the lives and works of legendary authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism 'The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,' the American author Willa Cather once wrote. Yet for Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, 1922 began with a frighteningly blank page. Eliot was in Switzerland recovering from a nervous breakdown. Forster was grappling with unrequited love. Woolf and Lawrence, meanwhile, were both in bed with the flu. Confronting illness, personal problems and the spectral ghost of World War I, all four felt literally at a loss for words. As dismal as things seemed, 1922 turned out to be a year of outstanding creative renaissance for them all. By the end of the year Woolf had started Mrs Dalloway, Forster had returned to work on A Passage to India, Lawrence had written his heavily autobiographical novel Kangaroo, and Eliot had finished – and published to great acclaim – 'The Waste Land'. Full of surprising insights and original research, Bill Goldstein's The World Broke in Two chronicles the intertwined lives and works of these four writers in a crucial year of change.
